In an interview scheduled to air on Fox News Channel’s Hannity at 10 p.m. ET Thursday (postponed from Wednesday due to coverage of the riots in North Carolina), Republican nominee Donald Trump took on violence in the inner cities, the police shooting in Tulsa, Okla., and attacks against him by Democrats who claim he is racist.

Speaking about accusations of racism made against him, Trump said, “You know, the one thing I see is that when you start to win — and I’ve watched this not just for me, I’ve watched it over the years — when you start to win and win and win, they have nothing to say and they can’t stop you, they always start using the ‘racist’ word.”

He continued, “It’s a very interesting phenomenon, but the word ‘racist’ comes out and that means that you’re winning and that’s their last chance, and I don’t think it’s working.”

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Trump said he has some ideas on how to help stop some of the violence in the inner cities, including “stop-and-frisk. I think you have to,” he said.

“We did it in New York, it worked incredibly well and you have to be proactive and, you know, you really help people sort of change their mind automatically, you understand, you have to have, in my opinion, I see what’s going on here, I see what’s going on in Chicago, I think stop-and-frisk.”

The Republican nominee added, “In New York City it was so incredible, the way it worked. Now, we had a very good mayor, but New York City was incredible, the way that worked, so I think that could be one step you could do.”

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The billionaire has other ideas for how to improve living conditions in the inner cities.

“We need jobs. We need jobs. Desperately need jobs,” he said.

He continued, “Now obviously we need the schools, we need the education, we need all sorts of things and especially the inner cities. The inner cities are, I mean, can you say never, but certainly one of the worst stages ever in the history of the inner city. It’s so unsafe where you walk down the street and you get shot or your child gets shot.”

Trump took a swipe at the Democratic Party, too, saying, “The Democrats have run [the inner cities] for 100 years mostly uninterrupted. I mean, nobody else. Uninterrupted, and you see what’s happened.”